SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1979
OPENING OF ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGN IN WAN CHAI
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HONG KONG HAS CONTAINED ITS OVERALL DRUG ABUSE PROBLEM WHEN INTERNATIONALLY DRUG ABUSE IS REACHING EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ACTION COMMITTEE AGAINST NARCOTICS (ACAN), SIR ALBERT RODRIGUES SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).
SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF THE MONTH-LONG WAN CHAI DISTRICT ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGN AT THE SOUTHORN PLAYGROUND, SIR ALBERT SAID: +WE ARE MAKING CONSIDERABLE INROADS INTO THE PROBLEM OF DRUG ABUSE AMONG OUR YOUTH.
+WHILE WE CAN TAKE PRIDE IN WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED – A PRIDE WHICH CAN BE SHARED BY ALL IN HONG KONG WHOSE SUPPORT HAS CONTRIBUTED ENORMOUSLY TO OUR SUCCESS - WE CAN IN NO WAY RELAX OUR EFFORTS.
+WHILST EVEN ONE HONG KONG CITIZEN REMAINS ADDICTED TO DRUGS, WE HAVE A JOB OF WORK TO DO.+
SIR ALBERT SAID THE GOVERNMENT, AS ADVISED BY THE ACAN, WAS FIRMLY COMMITTED TO FIGHTING THE DRUG ABUSE PROBLEM AND EVENTUALLY TO ELIMINATE IT FROM OUR MIDST
TO ACHIEVE OUR OBJECTIVES WE NEED EFFECTIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST THE CRIMINALS WHO TRAFFICK IN DRUGS AND THOSE WHO HELP THEM, A WIDE RANGE OF TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION FACILITIES FOR OUR DRUG ABUSERS, CLOSE CO-OPERATION ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE AND VITALLY IMPORTANT - FIRM SUPPORT FROM MEMBERS OF OUR
– OWN COMMUNITY HERE IN HONG KONG.
OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS HONG KONG HAS DIRECTED MAJOR EFFORTS INTO THE LINKED FIELDS OF PREVENTION, EDUCATION, AND PUBLICITY AGAINST NARCOTICS.
SIR ALBERT SAID1 +SINCE 1973, THE ACAN, WITH MOST VALUABLE CO-OPERATION AND ASSISTANCE FROM COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS AND CIVIC LEADERS AND MANY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND VOLUNTARY AGENCIES, HAS ORGANISED INTENSIVE ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGNS AT DISTRICT LEVEL EVERY YEAR.
+HERE IN WAN CHAI, DURING THE NEXT FOUR WEEKS, RESIDENTS, STUDENTS, AND WORKERS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE WILL BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN A WIDE VARIETY OF PROGRAMMES INCLUDING EXHIBITIONS SEMINARS, COMPETITIONS, FILM SHOWS, RECREATIONAL EVENTS AND VISITS.
+THESE PROGRAMMES ARE NOT ORGANISED, HOWEVER, FOR ENTERTAINMENT ONLY THEY WILL ALL CARRY AN ANTI-NARCOTICS MESSAGE.
HE SAID THE WAN CHAI CAMPAIGN HAD THE FOLLOWING THREE OBJECTIVES:
* TO WARN YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT THE RISKS OF TAKING DRUGS
AND TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO THINK OF HEALTHY ALTERNATIVĖS-
* TO DEVELOP